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Monday, February 3, 2014

Red Deck Wins in the New Standard

So during the week of spoilers, I kept finding cards that would make a perfect "Red Deck Wins" deck. This is essentially a very fast deck that kills your opponent in 3 to 5 turns and I built in a little bit of late game action if things last too long or the draws aren't very good. Let's take a look...

Turn 2: Mountain and Satyr Firedancer, attack with Blistercoil Weird if no creatures

Turn 3: Mountain, Searing Blood, and Shock. Searing Blood kills a creature (hopefully there is one), which then deals 3 damage to an opponent resulting in the trigger of the Satyr Firedancer hopefully killing a second creature (if one exists). Shock to deal 2 damage to an opponent, triggering Satyr Firedancer again (Shock or Searing Blood in any order, either way, 5 damage to opponent, 7 damage to creatures owned by your opponent, and a 3/3 Weird to attack as it sees fit).

Turn 4: At this point, anything involving casting instants and sorceries pumping the Weird and hitting the creatures should work. There are 20 burn spells dealing between 1 and 3 damage per, plus some scry mixed in. We also have Young Pyromancer for tokens, Guttersnipe for more direct damage, Ash Zealot for hasty first strike attacks, and the like. With these combinations, and your opponent at 12 life, 2 Lightning Strikes and a Weird attacking or another combination gives them 3 life with which a Skullcrack turn 5 will tear them apart, or maybe Awaken the Ancient swinging for the kill next turn.

The damage combinations will most likely differ, and with more creature heavy decks, you'll want more creatures for blocking and more things like Mizzium Mortars from the sideboard. Oracle of Bones is also great for late game, especially if you'd like to cast a burn spell for free, causing Satyr Firedancer to trigger, and also allowing Oracle of Bones to attack.

I believe I have most of the cards for this deck (except from Born of the Gods), so I look forward to using this at an FNM soon. I won't have the cards by this week and then next week is Valentine's Day, so at some point after that I'll put this together and hopefully wreak havoc.